The Seattle Post-Intelligencer newspaper reports that some 400 students at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Wash. are among the first in the nation to use finger scans to pay for meals and other expenses in the campus area.

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Sodexho Inc., the company that runs food service operations at Gonzaga, has launched pilot programs at the Spokane school and the University of North Texas to see if "biometric finger scans" are workable.

The program, known as iMye, operates like a gift or debit card. Students or their families deposit money into an account that can be managed online. At campus cafeterias and coffee shops, students use their fingers like cards a scanner reads the print and performs the transaction. Read the complete story here.

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